Malik Riaz refuses to appear before Suddle commission

Zahid Bukhari says his client, Malik Riaz, will not be appearing before the commission for its hearings.


Web Desk September 10, 2012

Real estate tycoon Malik Riaz has refused to appear before the  inquiry commission in the Arsalan Iftikhar case, headed by former police official Dr Shoaib Suddle, his lawyer Zahid Bukhari said Monday.

Express News reported that Riaz will file a review petition in the Supreme Court on the constitution of the commission.

According to his counsel, Zahid Bukhari, Riaz will not be appearing before the commission for its hearings.

The commission, constituted on the Supreme Court’s orders, has obtained the complete record of the case from the court and the National Accountability Bureau.

Evidence will be collected from those are party in the case.

The media will be allowed to monitor the commission’s proceedings.

Once the court releases its directives, Dr Suddle will have to complete his investigation within 30 days. He will be granted the powers of a magistrate and will be able to call assistance from lawyers and deploy state machinery as needed.

The commission will launch an inquiry against Riaz, Dr Arsalan and Riaz’s son-in-law Salman Ahmed.

The commission will also probe SP Faisal Bashir and his subordinate officer’s link with Riaz along with their professional misconduct.

COMMENTS (19)

gp65 | 11 years ago | Reply

@casim: "@Khalq e Khuda: oh can you enlighten us about those so called SOURCES ? :)" Asma Jahangir the former President of Supreme Court Bar Association is one such source. IT is also a fact that Shoaib Suddle was present in every single wedding related ceremont for Arsalan. When Arsalan refused to appear before NAB citing bias, Mallik Riaz is not wrong? What is wrong is that a single member commission consistig of family friend of one of the parties was made by the the CJ uncles of Arsalan.

Mirza | 11 years ago | Reply

The PCO CJ and his poor homeless son can never be wrong. A retired police officer is a fair judge in this case especially when his police dept was most honest in the world. The SC CJ has full faith in Dr. Suddle that is why they have close family relationships and that is why the good judge and his son went for the police chief. Make no mistake about it, police has been the most corruption free dept in Pakistan. They would make Malik Riaz and his son in law admit anything they want. This case should be decided with Riaz and his family in jail and a billion in compensation paid to poor Arsalan.

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